Columbine as an octopus

Gallery: FloraPosted July 22, 2014189 views15 comments

My last spring photo till next year.

Back lit in the morning, in our garden.

D800D, Nikkor 200mm macro - f/8 and ISO 200

I am thankfull for your opinions and advices.

Comments

15 comments

Comment posted by Thomas Haney on July 22, 2014 at 9:53 PM

Beautiful Guiseppe, I love the high key approach and the oof flower balanced with the subject, and the detail on the main flower is great.

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Comment posted by Bob/Charly Nelson on July 23, 2014 at 5:49 AM

Pure art Giuseppe. Great composition and subject purity.

Bob&Charly

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on July 23, 2014 at 12:05 PM

Hi Gigi

So beautiful and creative, Love it!!!

Albert Darmo
Canada

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Comment posted by Mark Zelinka on July 23, 2014 at 4:22 PM

A unique photo. Love it.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on July 23, 2014 at 6:15 PM

Excellent sharpness and detail in the main flower. I like how the OOF flower echoes the main flower. Very nicely done, Gigi!

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on July 23, 2014 at 7:25 PM

Gigi - Very well done !!. Love the bright background with some nice coloration to it and the superb echo effect in the right. Wonderful photo

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on July 24, 2014 at 7:05 AM

Masterly, Gigi !! Difficult to put one's feelings into words - such a dynamic relationship between the flower and the soft echo in the distance.

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Comment posted by Swathiraj G on July 26, 2014 at 8:40 AM

This is amazing work. High key & artistic feel of the oof on right. Beautiful.

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on July 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM

Beautiful work of art!! Up to your true standard.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM

Gigi: The more I look at this the more I like it. Superb comp and the OOF bloom in the corner puts this over the top for me. Superbly crafted image.>=))>

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 27, 2014 at 10:09 PM

Gigi: This shot continues to fascinate me. The OOF bloom intrigues me. Is it actually in the foreground rather than the background? Noticing that this was shot with a 200mm lens on a full frame sensor at f8 I can see that the OOF bloom would not have to be all that far away to be rendered so blurred but the relative size of it makes me suspect it is in the FG where the hyperfocal distance would be much shorter than in the BG. Inquiring minds want to know. >=))>

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Comment posted by Yun Gao on July 28, 2014 at 8:34 PM

Very artistic! The image looks like a color pencil sketch to me. Unique and beautiful.

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Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on July 29, 2014 at 2:06 AM

Excellent image Gigi! It's like an x-ray in color, and very well composed. It is light and bright and sharp and colorful. Very well done!

Sanjay

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on July 29, 2014 at 5:04 AM

Bill, I see that the blurred flower seems near but in the reality it wasn't. Many things cooperated: the clear subject was a smaller flower and not fully open while the other was very big and wide open; the 200mm flatten everything, the blurred element becomes bigger; and more, in PP I blurred the BG for the amount of three px and used some noise reduction.
Thanks for your interest Bill.
Thanks for the comments.

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on August 11, 2014 at 2:11 AM

Gigi,
Outstanding image, very artistic . . .

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